[squeak-dev] Re: [Newbies] Number formatting printf/sprintf for Squeak?

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> At Wed, 18 Feb 2009 22:34:08 -0500,
> David T. Lewis wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 02:37:27PM -0500, Matthew Fulmer wrote:
> > > On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 11:28:29AM -0800, Chris Cunningham wrote:
> > > > I'd be leary of basing Currency off of ScaledDecimal, especially if there is
> > > > to be much manipulation of it (such as multiplication or division).  The
> > > > reason is that ScaledDecimal keeps the representation of their numbers as
> > > > fractions under the covers - which can results in some odd (and incorrect)
> > > > results.
> > >
> > > ScaledDecimal is also probably going to be removed from squeak
> > > soon, as it has licensing issues.
> >
> > Arrgh! I started using ScaledDecimal for representing time magnitudes
> > in TimeZoneDatabase <http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/1076> quite some
> > time ago, and it works very well and is quite efficient. Are the
> > licensing issues resolvable? Can I help?
>
>   1.  Try to find  Richard A. Harmon.  I for example looked up the
>       name in Skype and send text chat to all of them, but didn't get
>       any response.  If you know other ways, please try.
>
>   2.  Write a new package.